By: Jennifer Saba Four of the top five news and current events Web sites that showed the most growth in unique users in July were newspapers.
New York's Daily News Online, while ranked only #29, made the largest gain in unique users in July -- 66% to 4.3 million uniques compared to the same period last year. Cox Newspapers increased the number of unique visitors by 57% to 5.8 million. Advance's newspapers also rose 42% year-over-year to 8 million and the New York Times jumped 38% to 19.5 million.
MSNBC grew the number of unique users by 44% to 37.5 million in July also topping the list.
The data is the latest from Nielsen Online that tracks the top 30 current events and global news sites. The survey is based on U.S. home and work users.
Only six channels in the top 30 experienced a loss in unique users. BBC News was down 18% to 5.2 million uniques year-over-year. AOL News slipped 5% to 22 million uniques. Gannett newspapers fell 4% to 13.2 million uniques while USA Today declined 2% to 10.4 million uniques. The Washington Post was down 2% to 8.9 million uniques.
The Huffington Post was knocked off the July list. In June, the site was listed as the No. 29 with the most unique users at 4 million up 219% from June 2007.
Below is a list of the top 30 Online Current Events & Global News Destinations for July 2008 provided by Nielsen (owned by E&P's parent company). Please note that traffic can vary month to month based on several factors, including news events.
Brand or Channel - July '08 Unique Audience (000) - July '07 Unique Audience (000)MSNBC Digital Network -- 37,516 -- 26,015
Yahoo! News -- 35,225 -- 32,674
CNN Digital Network -- 32,977 -- 29,757
AOL News -- 22,010 -- 23,103
NYTimes.com -- 19,513 -- 14,149
Tribune Newspapers -- 16,177 -- 12,218
ABCNEWS Digital Network -- 13,534 -- 9,876
Gannett Newspapers and Newspaper Division -- 13,254 -- 13,812
Fox News Digital Network -- 11,540 -- 9,343
Google News -- 10,776 -- 8,973
USATODAY.com -- 10,404 -- 10,611
McClatchy Newspaper Network -- 10,380 -- 8,338
CBS News Digital Network -- 9,197 -- 9,203
WorldNow -- 9,070 -- 7,604
washingtonpost.com -- 8,935 --- 9,157
Hearst Newspapers Digital -- 8,225 -- 7,596
Advance Internet -- 8,044 -- 5,648
MediaNews Group Newspapers -- 7,574 -- 6,843
Topix -- 6,229 -- 5,949
Cox Newspapers -- 5,842 -- 3,723
Slate -- 5,763 -- 4,875
IB Websites -- 5,633 -- 6,202
BBC News -- 5,253 -- 6,408
Gannett Broadcasting -- 5,010 -- 3,893
Fox Television Stations -- 4,940 -- 4,550
New York Post Holdings -- 4,937 -- 3,952
Boston.com -- 4,891 -- 4,029
MailOnline -- 4,645 -- 4,137
Daily News Online Edition -- 4,301 -- 2,586
NPR -- 4,282 -- 3,327
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